Can
this be THE year? Why I pray it is!
by Peggy McIlveene, 4/27/07
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Click HERE for Tracy's letter posted on 5 Doves. following is my response...
Your feelings are perfectly normal, Tracy… I have felt the same way for the past 4 years, when I thought, like you, “Maybe THIS will be the year”, and when January 1st of the next year rolls around, and we are still here, I want to cry! I keep telling myself, “I KNOW the time HAS to be getting close”, but “close” to me is not the same as “close” to the Lord, know what I mean?
I
desperately want to go into Eternity and begin final rest, relaxation, love, and
getting to know the HUGE amount of brothers & sisters that the Lord has led
into my life since I started His-Forever (3 years this past October)!
I have worked 32 years straight, with no break, and I am TIRED beyond
words of working! I am 54 years old,
and even though I look and feel MUCH younger, I’m not, and my body knows it.
I’m with you, as are the others… we’re all ready, as is creation!
And there are MANY things I want to discuss with the Lord IN PERSON! He’s “touched” me so many times in the past 5 years… touches that I can physically feel… and they are SO awesome! I want those touches for all eternity, and I want to be able to ask Him all the questions I’ve had all along.
I want to have the perfect senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight. I want to taste perfect foods and drink perfect water. I want to be able to look at brilliant landscapes filled with mountains and flowers with colors that can’t even be imagined.
I want to never worry again about my Richard having heart problems and crying because of my fear of losing him. I want to know that my Mom (who’s 83) and my Dad (who’s 86) will never see death, and my children: Shelly (34), Michael (32), and Christopher (28 today!!!).
I want to be reunited with my only grandbabies… Nicole who died at a week old 13 years ago this year, and the child Shelly miscarried the next year.
I want my lower back to never hurt again, and my loved ones' aches and pains to be gone for good.
I want to be able to travel through outer space and see the Lord’s heavenly creations, and walk around undersea and see what He’s placed on the bottom of the ocean. See these photos, and these photos, for instance!
I want to be able to sit and talk to my brothers and sisters for longer than 10 or 15 minutes at a time, because I won’t have to rush to get back to work.
I want difficult passages in the Bible to be fully understood by me, because I’ll be able to ask the Author directly.
I want to hug Yahshua, as I did in my recent dream, and as He hugged me the night before Nicole died, and I want to be able to look into His eyes and see Him smile down at me. I want to sing the song I wrote several years ago for Him, directly to His face… “The King Died In My Place”. It’s never been put to music, even by those (like Richard) who would normally put it to music… no one can come up with an idea. My guess is that He wants to allow me the privilege of singing it to Him myself, and that He will come up with the background music!
I want to crawl into Father Yahweh’s lap the way I used to do in my Dad’s lap when I was little, throw my arms around His neck, and tell Him, “Thank You, thank You, a million times thank You, for all You did for me and my loved ones throughout our earthly life! You have cared for me far above and beyond what could be expected from the perfect Father!”
I want to meet my mother-in-law and father-in-law, who died before I met Richard in 1996. His sister, Verne, says she would LOVE my long, curly, reddish-gold hair, because red and curly is her favorite. And I want to see the pure look of joy she will have upon seeing Richard there. Richard used to be so wild until he turned about 40 (we were 43 when we met), and his Mama was so worried about him. Little did she know, she sure didn’t need to! I wrote a poem for Richard’s birthday in January 2006, called “You’re Mama Will Be So Proud”, which explains why she doesn’t need to.
I want to be forever surrounded by people who believe as I do, and love the Lord as much as I do… (no more petty arguments over semantics!).
I want to never be under time constraints again. If it takes me 6 months to get where I’m going, no big deal… I won’t have to rush!
I want
the perfect weather… no more sweltering Houston heat, no more insects
(mosquitoes especially!), no more sweating!
I know I'll think of more as time goes on, and I will add to this page then. May this be the last article I will ever write, because Yahshua will come take us Home for good! May you know and love Him as I do, so that we can spend eternity getting to know Him and each other... ahhhhhhhhhh, eternal love, I can't WAIT!!!
Love
from your sister in Yahshua!
Peggy
His-Forever & ever!
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)